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The 11th Hour

The Hope Is You

It’s unavoidable that the even-handed but alarming eco-documentary The 11th Hour will be compared to the Al Gore Oscar-winning global warming shocker An Inconvenient Truth, but climate change is only one of the topics the film addresses. “In fact, The 11th Hour has much more in common with Koyaanisqatsi, the narration-free film that combines stunning cinematography and Philip Glass music to paint a picture of ‘life out of balance’.
‘Life out of balance’ would have made a good subtitle for the first feature-length documentary by sisters Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. With the help of producer and narrator Leonardo DiCaprio, they restate Koyaanisqatsi’s point – only in much more urgent terms and with the science to back it up.
Among recent documentaries that question the status quo (The Corporation, Why We Fight, Sicko), The 11th Hour takes the most far-reaching point of view and connects issues into larger patterns, culminating in a truly global call for change.”
– Jürgen Fauth, About.com